[Drake] TR4C TX trouble

[The Pollacks]

As in many things, when all else fails, read the instructions!  We're all
guilty of the same thing!  Just this morning I helped a ham with his auto
tuner on an old KW transceiver-he needed some carrier going thru to make it
tune!

Glad you got it going!
K2RP

-----Original Message-----
From: drake-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:drake-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Dick KF4NS
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:10 PM
To: DrakeRadio list; drake at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Drake] TR4C TX trouble

NEVER MIND, I am the worlds biggest dumb alpha sierra sierra !

It seems like I will never get it through my head how this Drake radio 
is designed. I keep thinking I can tune in the SIDEBAND X position 
using X-CW and then switch to the ccw position of the SIDEBAND switch 
(I corrected the 40M SW position below) and still see power out in the 
X-CW position.

I keep thinking like HEATH and COLLINS, and others where you can 
usually switch to CW and hit the key whether you are in USB or LSB 
during a voice QSO. I just need somebody to hit me up side of the 
head, but that would just scramble my brain even more I guess.

Thanks for everybody's  extreme patience with my ridiculous postings. 
You are such a great bunch of guys to tolerate my idiotic ramblings.

73, Dick KF4NS
St Petersburg, FL 33714 USA
Keep The Glow!

----- Original Message ----- >
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:29:49 -0500
> From: "Dick KF4NS" <kf4nsradio at verizon.net>
> Subject: [Drake] TR4C TX trouble
> To: "DrakeRadio list" <DrakeRadio at yahoogroups.com>,
> <drake at mailman.qth.net>
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> I am at my wits' end ! Just when I thought I had almost all of my
> ducks in a row this happens.
>
> I decided to tune up on every band, upper and lower, so I could put
> the wraps on it. Well, it didn't go well.
>
> Here are the results:
>
> 80M no output on LSB, S/B SW in ccw, USB ok,
> 40M no output USB, S/B SW CCW, LSB ok.     (MY ORIGINAL POST HAS THE 
> WRONG SW POSITION)
> 20M full output on USB/LSB
> 15M no output on USB, S/B SW ccw, LSB ok.
> 10M no output USB, S/B SW ccw, LSB ok.
>
> All tests run with dummy load and viewed on O'scope. CXR OSC reads
> 8.99993mhz on counter. CXR BAL tests good. Bias reads normal on all
> bands, both S/B's. RF TUNE peaks on all bands, USB and LSB using 
> XTAL
> CAL. I thought, well, must be a bad filter but I can't rationalize 
> it.
>
> I am ready to just stick it in the closet and forget about it for 
> the
> next 10 years (should I live so long)
>
> 73, Dick KF4NS
> St Petersburg, FL 33714 USA
> Keep The Glow!
>
>
>
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